The Plague
(Engel)


	Intro: Bm G/B A Bm x2

	Bm
	I spent many a night laying on my back
	
	G/B
	Waiting for the dawn to pierce a crack
	
	       Am                       Bm
	In the ceiling hanging from the sky
	
	
	And I envied the boy who grabbed the toy
	
	    G/B
	And ran away and found the joy
	
	Am                                     Bm 
	While I stood in the shadows wondering why
	
	C#m
	Flying towards me, wrapped in laughter
	
	  A/C#
	A woman's face, a terrible taste
	
	       Bm                           C#m
	Of the morning after kisses and goodbyes
	
	
	I can never seem to catch my footsteps
	
	A/C#
	Have desires they fly away
	
	    Bm
	And every day I've got to fight the plague
	
	
	C'mon hear me now
	
	
	Bm G/B
	Ooh yeah
	
	
	        A     Bm
	Got the plague
	
	
	How can I live an hour like this
	
	     G/B
	When anguish strikes me like a fist
	
	   Am                             Bm
	My nakedness exposed, and I can't stand
	
	
	Still I try to remember lips on lips
	
	    G/B
	And hips on the hips, and ice and fire
	
	    Am                                       Bm
	And gloom and glow - when did they leave the man?
	
	       C#m
	In the river of the night I see
	
	  A/C#
	A face that shimmers down at me
	
	    Bm                               C#m
	But like a falling star burns itself out
	
	
	Like a dead leaf scrapes the gravelled ground
	
	   A/C#
	My voice cries out, a gravelled sound
	
	    Bm
	But no-one's there to hear me but the plague
	
	
	C'mon baby
	
	
	Bm G/B
	Ooh yeah
	
	        A      Bm
	Got the plague
	
	
	G/B                A
	Can't you hear me?
	
	        Bm
	Got the plague
	
	
	Straining hard to see
	
	G/B
	Running after me
	
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	I keep pounding, pounding on the door
	
	
	But it's all so vague
	
	G/B
	When you meet the plague
	
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	And I keep coming, I keep coming back for more
	
	
	Bm G/B A Bm G/B Am Bm
	
	End